This week was also spent on designing the layout of our system. We got a lot of the core components finished so next week we’ll ideally just be adding finishing touches and polish to the website. I spent yesterday and today skinning this data table to fit with our theme. It’s a great jQuery plugin for displaying large amounts of data in a data grid with awesome built-in features like sorting of columns by clicking their headers and extensive skinning support. I had an issue at one point where applying a border of 1px to each column of the table would cause a 2px border between the inner columns and a 1px border on the outermost sides. I fixed this issue by using the CSS border-collapse attribute that sets the space and the borders between table cells to collapse so there is only one border and no space between cells.
